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February 13, 2010
The whys and wherefores of Loups-Garous, ghosts and cats.
Having big troubles with the blog at the moment, thanks to some braindead hacker. Anyhoo - the long and the short of it is, I need to repost this old post because the formatting was wonk-a-fied (damn you hacker person. I hope your eyeballs melt! I'm on my holidays here!) Apologies to Marleen, Emily Cross and Kerri whose comments were lost with the original.
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This weekend, I received a lovely e-mail from an Australian reader, Millie. In this e-mail Millie asked me some interesting questions.
I...
February 7, 2010
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! The Ghostbook polishings are done and dusted. I can take it no further, and now think it's time to hand it over to my editors.
That was a very interesting exercise; going back to a book four years after it was first written and getting the chance to rework it. It would be a great if all my projects got to rest for so long. Certainly, I did find it a slog at first; the first hot fire is gone from my belly, I guess, because I've written three books since Ghostbook was first...
February 5, 2010
I love finding stuff like this
I was researching horse drawn carriages for the new book ( one of the characters works in a cab depot in 1890's Dublin) and I found this on youtube - the episode of the 70's tv show 'Hands' that showed a horse drawn carriage makers. Bloody invaluable stuff. ( and check out those clothes! That's what people really dressed like in the seventies - forget all that groovy retro stuff you see on telly now - THAT's what we really looked like!)
February 3, 2010
Thebookdepository
I you, like me, object to the fact that Amazon chose to hold all Macmillan authors hostage while they tried to get their own way over e-book pricing. Then here - here is a wonderful place where you can also buy your books online. Thebookdepository.
They give free world wide shipping and they seem to respect the fact that authors and writers need to make a living.
January 31, 2010
Goodbye insideadog.
click for bigger version
It's my last day over at insideadog. You can read my buh-byes HERE
I posted this colour drawing of Embla and Razi, as a parting gift.
Thanks again to the insideadoglings for the january fun!!! I hope we see each other again soon.
January 29, 2010
Razi and Embla
Was a bit distracted today. So I did this little sketch of Razi and Embla. Hope you like it.
(click to see bigger version on my art site)
January 28, 2010
Me not dumb. Me needz picturz.
Latest post up at insideadog. The relief of discovering that I'm not as dumb as I thought I was.
January 27, 2010
Oh those Onions.
Had to shamelessly filch lovingly draw your attention to this brilliant post on the Alien Onions blog (AKA the editorial blog of my Australian publishers, Allen and Unwin. Where my good humoured, hilarious, (but hopelessly cake-addicted) Aussie editors hang out.)
It does an amazingly good job of explaining exactly what structural editing entails ( via the hilarious use of LOLcats no less)
My love for the Onions will never die.
January 25, 2010
The whys and wherefores of loups-garous, cats and ghosts.
This weekend, I received a lovely e-mail from an Australian reader, Millie. In this e-mail Millie asked me some interesting questions.
Loup-garou in it's semi-wolf form.
It's the first time I've actually been asked these, and thought they were worth reproducing here. Thank you Millie, for your permission to include parts of your e-mail here ( and thanks for all the kind words! I really do hope Rebel Prince lives up to the first two for you)
Ok. Millie asked me:
What happens to the people called...
